Rita Ferrone, Author at PrayTellBlog

Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. She is the former editor of The Yale ISM Review, an ecumenical journal of worship and the arts for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Instituted Ministries Celebrated Today: A First for Women

January 23, 2022 Rita Ferrone Church Reform Pope Francis

Today Pope Francis celebrated the institution of lectors; for the first time, women were among them. He also celebrated the institution of catechists.

Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community

January 17, 2022 Rita Ferrone Good Read Recently Published Books

“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”

Francis, Liturgical Pope: On the Relationship of Liturgy to Life

December 29, 2021 Rita Ferrone Liturgical Theology Pope Francis

What is authentic worship? Pope Francis frames the question.

New Rite for the Institution of Catechists — Initial Observations

December 14, 2021 Rita Ferrone DDW / Holy See

“Catechesis is the echo of the Word of God” — Pope Francis

The Reformed Rites: Discerning the Lex Orandi

November 20, 2021 Rita Ferrone Church Reform Pope Francis Vatican II

What is the lex orandi of the reformed liturgy, and why is it important that we understand it?

New Clarifications on Liturgical Translation from the CDWDS

October 22, 2021 Rita Ferrone Translation / New Missal

Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has issued a decree with clarifications concerning liturgical translation.